Indeed. But no court would support Christians suing the publishers of profane "art" nor of martyrs on the basis of stress.
Posted on 06/23/2022 2:34:23 PM PDT by Baladas
BOSTON (AP) — A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from slaves who are portrayed in widely published, historical photos owned by Harvard University can sue the school for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Thursday.
The state’s Supreme Judicial Court partly vacated a lower court ruling that dismissed a complaint from Tamara Lanier over photos she says depict her enslaved ancestors. The images are considered some of the earliest that show enslaved people in the U.S.
The court concluded the Norwich resident and her family can plausibly make a case for suffering “negligent and indeed reckless infliction of emotional distress” from Harvard and remanded that part of their claim to the state Superior Court.
The judges said the university failed to contact Lanier when it used one of the images on a book cover and prominently featured it in materials for a campus conference — even after she’d reached out about her ancestral ties.
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Pony up massholes. And when you move to FL for 6 months and a day, forget your political past and embrace you new freedom.
This is a good thing. Now people won’t be so lackadaisical when using pictures to try and guilt us to death.
Harvard has been sowing the seeds of this stupid victim mentality - so I hope they drain their endowment fund fighting (or trying to appease) this.
This Tamara chick needs to grow some nerve and stop being such a snowflake baby.
Hopefully they will be bankrupted.
How many historical pictures of Holocaust victims and other horrors are displayed everywhere to remind us of ‘’man’s inhumanity to man’’ are there?
Photos of slaves are just one of many
examples considered part of the legitimate record.
Unless the settlement is in mega billions that is unlikely. Harvard has the biggest fund pool of any US college.
In addition, we are all descended from slaves. From slave owners, too.
Grow the ‘Ell up snowflake. You are just another money grubbing parasite.
So Harvard is supposed to check with this chick before they publish photos that do not include her, her family, and that do not belong to her.
I wonder if we need to check with her before posting picture of my kids on Facebook.
The coming Civil War should start with removing the lawyers.
Indeed. But no court would support Christians suing the publishers of profane "art" nor of martyrs on the basis of stress.
Tamara Lanier
An example must be made. Close Harvard, burn it to the ground, and salt the earth underneath. You can always say “I’m sorry” later.
Slaves were a valuable asset cared for by their owners.
I couldn’t give a whit about their descendants.
I have to love it when their stupid liberal feces spatters back in their faces.
Hmmmm... wondering if I can sue ‘The Smithsonian’ for taking & publishing pictures of my Nana & family on the Pamunkey “reservation” in Virginia.
I’ve seen the picture in several publications/books and it was also placed on display at least one time.
I can probably fake up some tears as I talk in a sad baby-voice about how obvious it is that they lived in abject poverty and substandard “forced” housing.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of Marxists. Harvard can follow Disney down the memory hole.
In her lawsuit, Lanier argued that the Taylors were her ancestors and that the photos were taken against their will. She demanded the photos from Harvard, saying the school had exploited the portraits for profit.
How does she know the photos were taken against their will? They may have been rewarded for posing, or they may have been proud to be photographed with this new technology.
Lol. Maoists trained a generation of snowflakes and thought that they themselves would be exempt from the attentions of the loonie snowflakes. Lol.
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